“One was a shy, slender young woman who spoke no English when she was brought from Pakistan to enter an arranged marriage with a stranger in Virginia. The other was a self-confident professional, born in Turkey but raised in the United States, who thought she knew what she was doing when she married an educated Muslim man in Maryland.†Life in Maryland, however, proved to be horrible:
“My husband beat. He show knife. I am scared for him, for all family,†said Shamim, 21, the Pakistani bride, who was rescued by police. She is being sheltered and tutored in English at a private home. “They say no money, no call mother at home. I cook for all, I not eat. I not know 911 what is. I think I go crazy.â€
I do not understand why Western feminists, who are supposed to stand for women rights, never speak out against the oppression of women in Muslim communities in the West and in quite some Muslim countries.
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